Africa

CENCO In Kinshasa on December 30, 2016

"I have never promised anything at all, " the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) dictator Joseph Kabila said on Saturday, June 3, 2017. The secretive Joseph Kabila was giving  a rare interview, having chosen the German media Der Spiegel as his latest foreign medium in the last five years.

Militia Commander Gedeon Kyungu Mukanda Surrenders in Oct 2016, wearing a shirt with Joseph Kabila's image

The US have imposed targeted sanctions against top military leaders and government officials of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), for “planning, directing, or committing” serious human rights violations against Congolese civilians and opposition. The latest DRC top official to be sanctioned by the US, on June 1st, 2017,

congolese M23 Rebels in Rwanda in March 2013

A meeting to relaunch M23 that was planned in Uganda on Wed April 12, 2017 was called off, when Congolese rebel commanders and leaders of combattants who were expected in Uganda failed to show up.